German foreign minister: Donald Trump is a ‘hate preacher’

Right-wing populists such as Donald Trump, anti-immigration parties and Brexit campaigners “make politics with fear,” German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Thursday, according to media reports.

Germany’s anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, supporters of Britain leaving the EU, and “the hate preachers, like Donald Trump at the moment in the USA,” are fear-mongers, Steinmeier said, according to broadcaster Deutsche Welle.

Trump has been on the receiving end of hostility from a number of European leaders.

French President François Hollande said earlier this week that Trump’s “excesses make you want to retch,” after the U.S. Republican presidential candidate targeted the Muslim parents of a decorated American soldier killed in Iraq.

Steinmeier also spoke about the situation in Turkey. Germany’s tense relationship with Ankara is now at such a low-point that “there is essentially no basis for understanding … no basis for discussions,” he said, according to Reuters.

However, he warned against ending talks with Turkey about it joining the EU, as Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern suggested Wednesday. Steinmeier said that would remove the bloc’s leverage as it tries to moderate President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s crackdown in the wake of a failed coup on July 15.

Maria Valentina Umer

Steinmeier is absolutely right! The US is so sick a country! Trump is a mosbster and spreads racist hatred, as well as very dubious messages to Putin. If US voters are dumb, they´ll vote for this despicable man at their peril. But the British clowns Farage and Johnson flirt with this mobster. This shows the UK has veered towards the rabid politics in the USA. Quo vadis England? Do you want neo-cons, faschits, at all costs? Isn´t it enough that you, British politicians, since Thatcher have promoted the Wall-Street banksters in the City? Do you want to continue being the poodle of the USA?
Good riddance from the EU!

A lot of stuff in the world doesn’t matter. You know what matters? Ass. Ass matters.

Posted on 8/6/16 | 7:12 AM CET

Steve

Steinmeier’s brilliant idea: Europe should commit suicide to ‘retain leverage to try to moderate Erdogan’s crackdown’. And spread love and peace by importing millions more Muslims. What a genius! The IQ just shines from his face.